Massive Cocaine Bust At Russian Embassy In Buenos Aires

[Swordsmyth]

Police in Argentina foiled a plot to smuggle cocaine of "maximum purity" from Argentina to Europe using the Russian embassy's diplomatic courier service. Five suspects were arrested in the scheme based out of the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires following a year-long sting which enlisted the assistance of a shadowy Russian spy chief.
Ensnared in the operation were an embassy accountant, an Argentine police officer, two Russian gang members, and a local Russian mechanic who transported the drugs.

Authorities discovered the plot in December 2016 after Russian ambassador Viktor Koronelli stumbled across 860 lbs. (389 kilos) of cocaine zipped inside 12 suitcases in a storage facility belonging to the diplomatic mission. Koronelli immediately informed Argentine authorities - who decided to keep the discovery secret while they set up an elaborate year-long sting.


After removing the cocaine worth roughly $61 million USD, and replacing it with flour, authorities placed tracking devices on the cases and conducted a joint monitoring operation with Russian authorities.
“At 3 am we had to send people from the border police to buy the 389 kilograms of flour to the central market [in Buenos Aires] because no one had 389 kilograms in a warehouse,” said Argentinian security minister, Patricia Bullrich. “The drugs never traveled to Russia. Only the flour traveled.”

The gang then left the dummy narcotics in the warehouse for almost a year, as the retirement of the conspiring embassy accountant had caused them to look for other routes. But after alternative options fell flat, the network returned to its original plan.
The former accountant, Ali Abyanov, was instructed to request his belongings be returned to Russia using the courier service, and, learning of the move, investigators prepared to pounce. -Telegraph

“This has been one of the most complex and extravagant drug-dealing operations that Argentina has faced,” Bullrich said.
The courier in this case was in fact a high level KGB agent named Nikolai Patrushev - the former head of the FSB who is believed to have authorized the 2006 London assassination of a FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko - who died after being poisoned with a lethal dose of polonium-210.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...y-buenos-aires

[goldenequity]

Those eviil russians... we would NEVER use diplomatic containers. It's shameful.

[goldenequity]

Moscow: Reports of Drugs Shipment From Argentina Via Diplomatic Mail 'Not True'
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20180...ent-argentina/

"A support staff member [detained by the Argentine police as part of the criminal group] had neither a diplomatic passport nor the access to the management of diplomatic mail. An information spread in the media… is not true," Zakharova said in a statement, published on the Foreign Ministry's Facebook account.

Bullrich said that the Russian Embassy in Argentina notified the Argentinean security forces in late 2016 that it had found a few bags of cocaine in one of its premises. In a special operation launched by the two states' security forces, the drugs were replaced with flour, and the bags were equipped with GPS trackers.


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so a year long Rus/Arg joint bust
sounds like a warehouse level op
shipment 'allowed'
tracked from beginning to end
to catch the 'players' on the Russian receiving side.
A 'sting'.

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

Maybe connected to Miami Beach Boga/Wasserman friends ?

[goldenequity]

Maybe connected to Miami Beach Boga/Wasserman friends ?

Events like this could be a 'one off' but not likely... probably a part of the 'ring'.
If you could ever find out names, places and dates/meta data then you'd know for sure.

The problem is on the 'inside' of the police work... Argentine and Russian.
The 'bad guys' get tipped off.. obviously not in this case. It remained compartmented for a whole year.

Like with the 'fusion centers' here.
The FBI/DHS/DEA 'rats' work AGAINST the local/State investigations/stings.
They're 'spies'....
and NOT just against citizen targets. They're spies against local police work.
They're always 'on guard' to protect the 'ring' and 'take over' investigations...
then dead end or mis-direct/tip off.
Fusion centers are bad, bad news and NOT just for privacy/liberty reasons.